And the Winner Is…
After a month of victories and losses and thrilling deliberation, the Morning News‘s Tournament of Books has chosen a champion: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson! The harrowing, North Korea–set epic…
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“In Praise of Editors”
All writers should go read every word of this essay by Maria Bustillos, written on the occasion of editor Carrie Frye’s departure from the Awl. The gist of it: your…
Where’d You Get Those Shoes?
Some eBay sellers bare their souls, like a woman who went on a shopping spree when her marriage was on the rocks. “The husband was just starting to roam, things…
Thanks, Bitch!
Bitch included FUNNY WOMEN #98: Classic Novels Rejected by Modern Publishing Houses in yesterday’s feminist news roundup. Thanks, Bitch! You’re on our radar, too!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I think we could all use some cute sea lion news. Atlas Obscura (via the American Museum of Natural History) looks at the origins of whales. IT BEGINS: here comes…
Putting Tracks on the Map
Jay Shells, an artist currently working in New York, is taking favorite rap lyrics and putting the tracks on the map … all over the Big Apple. This project, which…
Number of Asian-American and Latino TV Writers on the Rise
If the depressing VIDA count has got you down, Colorlines has some news that could lift your spirits. According to the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) the number of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Simulated) life on Mars. There are all sorts of unseen Basquiat works on the way. We are legally obliged to post some ruin porn every month or so. I am…
Joshua Mohr on Recklessness
Joshua Mohr, novelist and San Francisco resident, sits down with HTML Giant’s Weston Cutter to discuss craft, and his newest novel, Fight Song, in this brilliant interview: As artists, evolution is important.…
The Believer Turns Ten!
Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore saw McSweeney’s publication The Believer celebrate its tenth anniversary this Monday. “The Believer’s staff is all over the country, and we communicate primarily via email, so events like…
Jason Novak’s Lowdown on North Korea
At The Morning News, check out head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak and Mike Duncan’s “She Nukes Me, She Nukes Me Not” ironically comical visual guide to the history of the…
Surprising Children’s Book Authors
Sylvia Plath wrote a children’s book…and apparently Jim Carrey is going to as well? Brain Pickings has scans of the text and charming illustrations of Plath’s book, a story about…